CybersecKyle
Kyle
I love everything tech. You can check out more about me on my website. I blog about cybersecurity, technology trends, and best practices in IT. I even share the occasional tech review every now and then.
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This week’s notes cover the tail end of 2025 and the first few days of 2026. It was another short week with New Year’s Day off on Thursday, then right back to work on Friday. The vibe Late 2025 stayed about as quiet as it gets. Mostly calm and steady, with a few quick spikes of anxiety mixed in. Highlights The older...
Image by 200 Degrees from Pixabay (Cropped) Direct navigation, the “I’ll just type the site name real quick” habit, has quietly become one of the web’s dumbest footguns. Brian Krebs put a spotlight on it in Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content, summarizing new research that shows parked domains are no...
Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash I can’t believe it’s already 2026. Looking back, 2025 was a real mix of highs and lows, wins and frustrations, and the usual chaos that comes with juggling work, school, and trying to build things on the internet that don’t disappear the moment a platform decides to change the...
People tend to file “AI” into one of two buckets: magic oracle or job-stealing robot. Both are wrong in the same way. They treat AI like an independent actor instead of what it actually is in a SOC: a capability you wire into your process. Used poorly, AI becomes an expensive confidence machine that hallucinates,...
TThis week’s note is shorter than usual since it was a holiday week and everything ran on “short week” mode. The vibe Last week was steady in the best way. I only worked through Wednesday, and work stayed mostly quiet outside of the usual alerts and the occasional support call. Personally, I did what I’ve needed for...
Can you believe another year is almost over? It’s been a whirlwind of learning, growth, and new beginnings. As I look back on 2025, I am filled with gratitude for the incredible journey that has brought me here. With all these services doing their “Wrapped” featured, I thought it would be fun to share my own year in...
This is Part 3 of the Everyday Defense track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. The goal here is simple: make your browser boring to attackers without making your browsing miserable. Browsers are the front door to most modern compromises. Phishing starts in a tab. Drive-by downloads happen in a tab....
I am trying out a new format for these posts. Let me know what you think! Yesterday was a busy day, I got a call before I was even to work. The day didn’t stop after that. I wasn’t able to write this post yesterday so here is to posting it with a delay. Hopefully, it doesn’t become a pattern but no promises. The...
Last week was a mixed bag, leaning heavier on the rough stuff than the wins. But that’s how it goes sometimes. You take the hits, appreciate the bright spots where you can, and keep moving forward. So I’m going to knock out the bad first, then end on the good. The Bad 😞 Early in the week, my right ear started...
Switching from Chrome, Edge, or even Firefox to Vivaldi usually starts with one question: “What do I do about my ad blocker and all my carefully tuned filter lists?” As someone who lives in Vivaldi for both personal browsing and security work, the blocker setup is actually one of the reasons I stay. Vivaldi ships a...
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